Nov - Dec '03

The Beehive Collective (In These Times) - filtered through an intricate narrative of metaphor and allegory, the posters depict a world recognizably and disturbingly our own.

Still The Sundance Kid (AlterNet) - Robert Redford gets heated up about the Bush environmental agenda, global warming, clean energy and worms. Yes, worms

The Genetically Modified Bomb  (Tom Paine) - Imagine a bomb that only kills Caucasians with red hair.

 Sept - Oct '03

“The Reality”  (Hope Dance) - This is the name of the new car that you have never heard about and have never seen. It is radical; and author Jill Cloutier will blow you away as you howl with laughter perhaps only to be shocked the next time you enter into your automobile.

People Are The Ultimate Predators (ENN) - We are the best killers nature has ever made.

Aug '03

Feminism, The Body And The Machine (Cross Current) - I knew a man who, in the age of chainsaws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.

Christianity And The Survival Of Creations (Cross Current) - I want to begin with a problem: namely, that the culpability of Christianity in the destruction of the natural world, and the uselessness of Christianity to any effort to correct that destruction.

Sustainability And Vision With Examples (Hope Dance) - People need vision. I need vision. Without vision, all our activities can be for naught.

July '03

The Case For The Earth (Resurgence) - The movement to preserve the habitability of the Earth is in failure mode and we ought to ask why.

Of Food, Farming, And Freedom (Common Dreams) - Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin. We call them the founding fathers but they could be called the "founding farmers" just as appropriately. All three owned farms and had a passionate interest in agriculture.

Where Agriculture Meets Empire  (AlterNet) - Land Institute president Wes Jackson explores the intersection of science and society, agronomy and ecology, culture and politics.

June '03

Feed The Needy, Not The Greedy  (EMag) - Right up there with air and water, one of the last things in nature we should be tampering with is our food—at least not without due consideration of all the ramifications.

Eating Oil  (Resurgence) - Every time we eat, we are all essentially 'eating oil'. Virtually all of the processes in the modern food system are dependent upon this finite resource.

Genetically Modified Morals (Common Dreams) - Promoters of U.S. farm exports argue that low-income countries that are losing their food self-sufficiency as markets become global are actually better off because their farming systems are inefficient.

Cropping Pharm  (Tom Paine) - Let's keep the food in the fields, and the medicine in non-food crops, tucked safely inside greenhouses.

What America Needs Is More Slow Food (CommonDreams) - fast is the American way. It has spawned the McWorld we live in and it has infected the rest of the globe. 

May '03

It's Time To Rediscover Our Place In Nature (ENN) - If we want to maintain a healthy environment and quality of life for future generations, we must change the way we see the world and our place in it.

Rx For An Ailing Planet (Common Dreams) - Spread of diseases of humans, animals, and ecosystems constitutes yet another emerging crisis in this period of proliferating crises.

Our Obligations To Nature (CSM) - The earth, says Rolston, is the Promised Land of milk and honey referred to in the Bible, and man has a duty to protect it.

April '03

Is Earth Day Obsolete? (Conscious Choice) - A die-hard Earth Day advocate reflects on the April 22nd observance and its relevance in a busy preoccupied society.

Keep Us Human (CommonDreams) - If we're truly smart, we'll refuse to foolishly tamper with our DNA

Liberation Day (Salon) - ..." despite the suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we must utter, not words of regret, but words of hope, of the dreadful hope of those isolated with their fate."

News Under Fire (New Yorker) - Real-time reporting in the fog of war.

March '03

Body Burden (Tom Paine) - Forty years ago, Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" connected the dots between industrial chemicals and declining ecosystems. Now two new reports reveal those same substances are in our bodies.

The Barriers To Sustainability (Hope Dance) - Gone are the days of the dependable automobile and sturdy appliances; now are the days of the greedy corporation not paying their workers enough to get the job done right.

Surviving The Great Dying (YES) - As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning understanding of its links to our own health could energize a movement to save us all.

Worldly Wise (Hope Mag) - It takes a village to understand world geography--and the future of the planet.

Februrary '03

Is Our Food Safe?  (Tom Paine) - Genetically engineered crops are here -- whether we like it or not

Brand America (CommonDream) - Move Playboy into China, and it's another feather of freedom in the Yankee cap.

Fast Food Fascism (CommonDream) - The fast food industry stands against the personal values that made this country great.

January '03

On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity (ZMag) - Lack of harmony characterizes our times -- There is disharmony between humans and nature, between religions, between cultures, between genders.

Turning Green (Hope Dance) - "“The human race is at a crossroads” it began. “We must choose either the paradigm of money values and violence, or the path of life values and non violence."

A History Of Our Future (Tom Paine) - "It is possible to see very clearly that our current economies are toxic, destructive on a gargantuan scale, and grossly unfair -- to see all this and yet still have difficulty imagining effective reform." 

Cloning, Terror, and Our Humanity (Common Dreams) - Humanness is always in a state of becoming, and even though we are inclined to focus on our ultimate purposes as determining who we are.

December

Why Vegans Were Right All Along (Guardian) - Famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy.

Rage On, Granny, Rage On! (Hope Dance) - We're so proud of not living OLD and indeed, living Young that we are in danger of uprooting ourselves.

Economics For Life (YES)  -  With the revelations of high-profile corporate fraud and corruption, I sense a dramatic change.

November

Eaters Of The World Unite (AlterNet) -As we gather around Thanksgiving tables this year, we can be thankful that, while the profiteers and politicians are headed one way with our food system, We the People are going in quite another direction.

Our Far-Flung Thanksgiving Meals (Tom Paine)  - "In contrast to the fare of the first Plymouth feast, most food that Americans eat today travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate, about 25 percent farther than two decades ago."

Engineered Food Claims Are Hard to Swallow (CommonDreams)  -  No one knows whether continued eating of genetically engineered food is safe.

The Values Of Good Food (Atlanic)  -  In his new book, The Pleasures of Slow Food, Corby Kummer profiles a culinary movement that is really a philosophy of life.

October

The Failure of War (Resurgence)  -  The ‘free market economy is becoming indistinguishable from the war economy.

Finding Common Ground for Cities and Farms (AlterNet)  -  Urban and rural residents are realizing their interdependence and working together to improve their communities.

Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides, and Radiation Cause Breast Cancer (Common Dream)  -  Racing for the cure, but running from the cause.

Fossil Fools (Utne)  - A revolution in energy is coming, but Washington looks the other way.

Oiling the War Machine (Utne)  - The unholy union of the war on terrorism and our insatiable thirst for petroleum.

Organic Food's New Day (Common Dreams)  - The new labeling standard is a major step toward recognizing that organic farming delivers benefits the public craves: cleaner air and water and a safer food supply.

Farming With The Wild (ENN)  - At present, the challenge of making farming more harmonious with biodiversity conjures more questions than ready answers.

I'm an American Tired of American Lies (Guardian)  - To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

Fostering Farmland (CSMonitor)  - Balance needed between sprawl and land under plow.

Industry Fights Progress -- Again (ENN)  - Maximizing profits at the expense of human and environmental health is not a god-given right.

In Greed We Trust (Tom Paine)  - Yea, though I walk through the Valley of Wall Street, I shall make no profit.

September

Agribusiness, Bio-technology and War (Tom Paine)  - Since the earliest origins of modern industrial agriculture, agribusiness has been at war against all life on earth, including ourselves

The Agrarian Standard (Orion)  - An essay by Wendell Berry

Rome, AD ... or Rome DC? (Guardian)  - They came, they saw, they conquered, and now the Americans dominate the world like no nation before.

Americans... Leading The Way, Destroying The Planet (Common Dreams)  - What's the world to do?

What Do We Really Want?  (Guardian) - Economic growth is seen as good, yet it makes many in the rich world miserable.

Talking Then, Talking Now (Common Dreams)  - In short, let us talk this week not only of where we were, but also of where we can be.

Make Courage A Daily Practice (Conscious Choice)  - Let us all renew our commitment to live each day with courage, and with awareness that we are all connected.

Trouble In The Pipeline (Common Dreams)  - The corporate promises being made at the Earth Summit are likely to prove hollow.

911 "Overkill" (National Review)  - Get the mute button ready.

August

Booby Traps At Rio+1 (Nation)  -  The World Summit is failing because the entire process was flawed from the start.

What Hope Is There For The Earth Summit?  (Red Pepper) - Hopes and fears as to the outcome of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg

Beware Americans Bearing Gifts  (Food First) - Another poisoned chalice in Africa

Sustain The Planet That Sustains Us  (Common Dreams) - As world leaders gather in Johannesburg next week for the 2002 Earth Summit, they face the most precarious environmental situation in our history.

Saving the Planet  (Mode Diplo) - By destroying the natural world mankind has been making planet Earth less viable as a place to live.

Corporate Capture  (Guardian) - Next week's earth summit will not only fail to tackle the ecological crisis. It will make it worse.

The Logic Of Empire  (Common Dreams) - The U.S. is now a threat to the rest of the world.

The City That Never Changed  (Guardian) - Everyone hoped New York would rise from the wreckage as a different, better place.

Terrorism In A Suit And Limo  (Rense) - The problem for the Bush Administration is that terrorism has been too narrowly defined.

Grim Reaping  (Common Dreams) - The industrialization of agriculture is killing the land.

July

Organic Diet For A Small Planet  (Common Dreams) - We can produce the abundance we need without squandering our resources.

A How Can I Serve? The Path of Spiritual Activism  (Common Dreams) - “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

Down on the Farm (Utne) - The surprising prejudice against country people.

The Suicide Bombers Who Play Into Sharon's Hands  (Guardian) - The Palestinians have a lethal weapon - but it harms them too.

Clinton: Pardon Me Africa  (AlterNet) - Clinton wonders why the West stood by and did little as the AIDS crisis in Africa exploded.

One Nation, Under Wall Street?  (News for Change) - Renouncing sins against the corporate faith.

A Matter Of Time (Guardian) - Yet even for Palestine and Israel, peace can and will happen one day.

Bubble Bubbles, Plenty More Troubles... (Rense) - you can’t fix a deflating bubble by stuffing it with the same vapid, nutrition-less garbage that created the bubble in the first place.

Where Did All The Protestors Go? (Common Dreams) - After 11 September, the anti-globalization movement was swept from the headlines.

Do You Know What's Going On? (AdBusters) -  Never have so many communicated so much, on so many screens, through so many channels, absorbing so many hours of irreplaceable human attention.

June

Deadly Illusion  (Common Dreams) - There are people of good will on both sides, people not blinded by the illusion that violence solves everything.

Dishonesty, Greed and Hypocrisy in Corporate America  (Common Dreams)

- the current condition of the executive suites of government and business in America.

The Alchemy of Water  (ENN) - After all, the goal of capitalism isn't to sustain life, but to produce wealth, even at the cost of life.

It's Too Soon To Gloat  (Guardian) - America's financial scandals won't bury the US model. But they do give us a chance to rethink globalisation.

Time To Hear Kashmir's Cry  (Guardian) - It is time we insisted on listening.

The Culture Of Make Believe  (GNN) - We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist.

Waiting To Fight Climate Change is Not An Option  (ENN) - It's not a pretty picture.

Murder By Suicide  (Common Dream) - If suicide-murder is not firmly repudiated by all humans, imagine what it will do to our highways.

We Face Endless War Everywhere (Common Dreams) - You might think that fear of a nuclear war would eclipse other current worries.

Bringing peace out of the shadows (Guardian) - with courage and determination, peace is possible.

Feeding People in the 21st Century (Guerrilla News) - We need to work to restore natural harmony and the balance of nature, rather  than extract more of its gifts for human consumption.

On Corporate Responsibility A Ronald Mc Donald Fantasy (Common Dreams) - McDonald's corporate initiative is best described by the poet Henry Thoreau: "Improved means to an unimproved end.".

Time to come clean on the dirty secret of starvation (Common Dreams) -This week's World Food Summit will once again avoid the real issues

The danger is that India and Pakistan think they can survive a nuclear war (Common Dreams) - Nations have gone to war over a great deal less, but seldom have they had so much to lose..

Asserting Democratic control of food and agriculture (Hope Dance) - How we can challenge corporate control of our Food... and win.

Palestinian Nonviolence: Would it work? (Common Dreams) - perhaps idealism is the most realistic approach at this time; and nonviolence the solution most grounded in reality.

May

Freedom to Hate, Freedom to Harm (Guardian) - The US constitution is a uniquely powerful document, but whether it has really done anything for the cause of freedom is open to debate.

What you don't know can't hurt you (Tom Paine) - Repeating the mistakes of Caesar's war on terror.

Our Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Media (Tom Paine) - With both sides charging bias, what's an editor to do?

A better way to feed the world (Common Dreams) - Bill Gates thinks he's got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad by fortifying food.

Am I a food snob? (Utne) - Does my preference for organic fruit and handmade bread hinder efforts to feed the world?

Enough is Enough (Resurgence) -  Practicing self-restraint and accepting our own mortality.

Eating as a political act (Hope Dance) - Knowledge wasn't power in the case of this education.

Squeezing the poor (Common Dreams) - Maybe Castro's right. Maybe that's all globalization really is about.

Redemption Song (News for Change) - Finding humanity in the Mideast carnage, in ourselves.

Parallel Universe (Common Dreams) - Both sides believe they are the victim, both sides are fighting for their very lives. And, like parallel lines, they never touch.

A hope for peace in the middle east (Common Dreams) - The US must join with the rest of the world to do what Israelis and Palestinians need, but can’t do for themselves.

April

Dispel the myth that cheap food comes without high cost (Common Dreams) - Earth Day is a perfect time to celebrate the first, true gift of the Earth to us: food. Before we toss our hats into the air, though, we might want to start with an admission.

Implantable Chips Ahoy (News for Change) - 'Mark of the beast' or sign of the times?

Taking over for God on the Seventh Day (Donella Meadows) - Let's invent some new ones that life has never seen before and then invent some DNA to code for them!

The Death of Innocents (Slate) - Terrorists' bombs kill more than just people.

Automatics for the People (Slate) - Why do Palestinians have M-16s?

To win, Palestinians must adopt a nonviolent strategy (Common Dreams) - The Palestinians need to pursue a conscious, organized strategy of nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation.

Is Terrorism Ok? (Guerrilla News Network) - If we accept that terrorism is defined only by the justness of the cause then clearly there is no such thing as terrorism.

Slaves of Our Desire (Common Dreams) - Our habits and opinions have been so cleverly manipulated by PR people that we have forgotten how to think.

The end of the Styrofoam Strawberry (New Int'l) - The hungry will be fed not by ever-grander schemes, ever-bigger farms, but by smaller farms that are more in touch with the earth.

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous (New Statesman) - Whether it's the MMR vaccine or GM foods, people distrust what scientists tell them. And they are perfectly right to do so.

Unlikely Allies Against Cloning (Common Dreams) -  the surge of new technology makes new issues--and new alliances--inescapable.

Lets Roll!TM (Alternet) - "We believe we own 'Let's roll'..."We're going to do all that's necessary to protect that."

What is real security? (YES) -  This in turn will demand a continuing American revolution that expresses in works a sincere faith in individual and community effort.

The Magic Door (Patagonia) -  If you manage to fight and win them, then the world is a different place too, and a better one.

Lost Children of the Mideast Conflict (Common Dreams) -  The complete irrationality of violence has never been more clearly on display than in the Middle East this year.

March - February

The Selling Of 911 (AlterNet) -  The recent CBS documentary on 9-11 is damning proof how a national tragedy has been turned into a marketing bonanza for corporations. 

The Corrupting Influence of Power (Tom Paine) - What good can come of an arrangement that delivers the economic fate of hundreds of millions of people to the hands of a small, unaccountable group of men?

Fruits We'll Never Taste (Utne) -  Preserving diversity-in the natural world and human culture-lets us delight in an abundant world.

You are the One (Utne) -  Small steps can lead to big differences in the world.

The Death of Empires (Common Dreams) -  Maybe this is the way empires die. Maybe they weaken themselves from within.

Nation of Poisons (Tom Paine) - Will the reality of terrorism cure us of our toxic addictions?

The Imperialism of Everyday Life (Adbusters) -  We live in a culture of increasing emptiness; there is a vacuum at the heart of our empire.

Drugs in our food = National security? (Alternet) -  Of the 26.6 million pounds of antibiotics stuffed down the throats of animals every year, only two million are used for treating specific illnesses.

The New Gilded Age (Common Dreams) - Abraham Lincoln predicted the Gilded Age and would not be surprised to see how money continues to corrupt our political system.

Mountains, Elk, and Sprawl (Common Dreams) - the constructed world, human habitat, becomes narrow and sterile.

Canary in a Cornfield (Orion) - Bioengineered strains of seeds, like Bt corn, only strengthen agriculture's grip.

The Idea of a Local Economy (Wendell Berry- Orion) - Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

No need for a trademark (Nando Times) -  a dozen individuals and companies, including the foundation set up by Beamer's family, want to make "Let's roll" a trademark, so they can market it exclusively. Please. Let's not go there.

A New Hope (News for Change) - The recent WEF protests show potential for an improved anti- globalization movement.

Takin' it to the suites (News for Change) - The WEF and its protestors are more alike then anyone’s been told.

School's Out (Utne) - The new economic reality of "free agents" is reshaping American education.

It's time for Bush to say, 'God bless us, every one' (Common Dreams) - calling upon God to bless the world instead of America exclusively is a simple step

America must reject excessive consumption, embrace new values (Common Dreams) - It is time we reexamine the values and belief systems underpinning the American economic model. Sustainable development might indeed be worth thinking about.

A New Middle East Approach (Nation) - The chance for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict is not dead.

January - December 

The Path to a Better Future (Common Dreams) - This generation of Americans must make a choice of awesome proportions about the future of civilization on this little blue planet.

Patriotism on the cheap (Common Dreams) - Confronting that morning again, you suddenly remember the senselessness of the slaughter and the hope we had that changed.

It's time for a new bottom line: A spiritual dimension (Common Dreams) - humankind does not have to inherit the world - it can make the world anew.

The Law of the Jungle (Path to Freedom)  - "We were seeing for ourselves the sharp contrasts between the forces that make for life and those that make for death."

Our Factory of Need (Common Dreams) - Could it be that the recent horrible attacks, far from scaring or defeating us, have helped us to some questions that we long have needed to ask?

Our World War (Ad Busters) - Defending America has come to mean a siege on the environment.

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